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Comment Re: Older students (Score 1) 25

I think settling Mars is impossible, but still easier than lifespan extension.

Given enough money, we can go to Mars, build and support basic dwellings. It's idiotic if you ask me but we can at least try.
But biochemistry is very complex and our understanding is too limited. Anything disruptively anti-ageing will have chances to be pro-cancer.

Comment Re: AI = glorified search engine (Score 1) 225

the list included a bunch of information that wasn't on the page.

If the information was correct but missing on that page, it could be it was present in another language version.

I think those things consider Wikipedia as a single object. I asked in French the date of death of Japanese emperor Hirohito. The answer included the cause of death (duodenum cancer) which had not asked and was not present in the Wikipedia link offered as a source. Though it was present other Wikipedia language versions, e.g. it is in the English version of the page.

Comment Re: nope, also rust people (Score 1) 105

Good programmers ask: [...] If you don't, then you can't write secure code in any language

All fun and games until you manage a large project and your team gets juniors apparently picked at random by HR (or the AI bot). It's not about how great a programmer you are, it's about how disastrous the new interns can be.

Comment Re:Kent by name, K*unt by nature (Score 2) 105

anyone have ANY fucking idea how Linux is going to survive without Linus?

This scenario has already happened with vim

Linux doesn't use vim any more?

This is about the passing of Bram Moolenaar, Benevolent dictator for life of Vim, the fact that Linus as well is a mortal, and that without someone as assertive as Linus it will be hard to keep the project steered.

Comment Re:Don't discard foreign partners (Score 1) 84

I exaggerated based on your sentence "use their power domestically" implying Morocco has internal needs for electricity. What UK is going to use the electricity for? Power their homes, their hospitals, their schools, their data centers. Should Morocco build more hospitals and schools? Well probably, but the cost isn't about electricity. Should Morocco build more data centers? Maybe, but for what customers?

If Morocco has an infinite source of electricity, that's what they should sell. This is Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" in 1 sentence.

Comment Re:Move stuff out of the kernel (Score 2) 105

Kent Overstreet about the recovery mode that triggered the feud: " we can run it in userspace today. The thing is, with it in the kernel side codebase, we can test it with an -o nochanges mount, and that way the user can verify with their own eyes that the filesystem looks the way it should and their data is there. For this particular recovery mode, that's essential." https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flwn.net%2FArticles%2F10272... Also "A fuse implementation will never be performant enough to replace the kernel implementation, "

Comment Re:Great loss; could have been worse (Score 4, Informative) 105

Storage tiering, compression tiering, native encryption, caching strategies, erasure coding (with no write hole) https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fderg.nz%2Fkb%2Fhowto%2F2023%2F... Also bcachefs is faster than btrfs https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.phoronix.com%2Frevie...

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 160

No scientific theory tells something about "deserving"; this is religious. One I checked as a reference says "we need to support and be compassionate to those with mental illness, every bit as much as we support those who suffer from cancer, heart disease or any other illness" https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vaticannews.va%2Fen%2F... (Deacon Ed Shoener from Pennsylvania, whose daughter died by suicide). If your religious leader says some people deserve to die I guess you can go back to drinking the Blood of Kali Ma.

Comment Re:*sighs* (Score 1) 48

(Copyright is supposed to be enforced by the rightsholder.)

Not sure it changes the point of view it in the case of Denmark. European systems implement author's rights, not copyright. There initial ownership of an artistic work always lies with the individual, and some systems entirely prohibit corporate ownership. Of course usually authors (e.g. singers) delegate the economical rights of their creations to the company that hired them for that work.

Comment Re:The quiet part: (Score 1) 160

Good to know you are consistent. The problem is it isn't enforced the way you propose, it is enforced (apparently) single-way against the immigrants. Which makes it NOT about "enforcing the fucking law", it makes it "maximum suffering" against the immigrant. It's a Beat the Weak policy.

Comment Re: The Soviet press didn't write bad stuff either (Score 1) 41

Non-fighters not wishing to be part of war is exactly what a war refugee is. Fighting-age men deserting and fleeing are war refugees. It is shocking to compare that to murderers wanting to avoid being judged for their crimes after the war finished (Nazis fleeing Europe).

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